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Back to '28. The Republican swing hit hard. Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan. Sole potent Democratic city machine left, outside the Solid South, is Ed Kelly's Chicago juggernaut.
Racketeer Costello admitted that he controlled four Tammany district leaders, had used them last year to help swing Tammany's leadership to Michael J. Kennedy, had since conferred with Boss Kennedy at least once a week. He put full pressure on Kennedy to nominate Aurelio, and succeeded, even though...
Without pleasure, Tammany Leader Michael J. Kennedy arrived at his headquarters early on election evening. He and Tammany's Secretary Bert Stand chatted idly in the lonely office, occasionally stared outside at the foggy dusk. They were alone until 7:30; then a half dozen district leaders, grim as...
Imbued with a desire to be a "small, pale crusader" against greed and selfishness, she landed a job in 1934 with the crusading NRA, soon bossed it in New York. To settle labor disputes, the biggest part of her job, she developed a technique of mowing down disputants with a...
There are innumerable tales about the characters in Pottsville, in western New York (where Tutt first practiced law); in pre-World-War-I Manhattan (where Tutt learned that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker...